Beatrice Daily Sun from Beatrice, Nebraska • Page 1

Temperatures High and tew yesterday High, low a year ago 87-63 Precipitation this month 4.71 Precipitation this year 14.15 Preclp. to date last year 15.JO BEATRICE DAILY SUN VOL. ei NO. 285 -if YOU Didn't Set it la Stm II Mdnt Hopptn- Weather Partly cloudy and continued warm with diance of showers tonight, low In 70s; partly cloudy, continued hot tomorrow, high hi 905. BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 28,1963 Member Associated Pteo 7c PER COPY Declare state of emergency in area towns Order to provide federal aid for 7 communities Seven of the 25 Nebraska com inunities which have been declared "state of emergency" towns are from the Beatrice area.

Included in the list are: Beatrice, DeWitt, Swanton, Adams Firth, Hickman and Wilber. The "stale of emergency" was made by Gov. Frank Morrison. The order will provide federal aid for the 25 community areas. In the proclamation, the Governor stated that an emergency began last Sunday and will continue unt 1 necessary repa and policing action and other requirements are alleviale'd.

Aid Qualification The Governor noted that such a proclamation is necessary as a preliminary qualification for federal aid. The area becomes eli- for aid if it is established that governmental units, both state and local, sustained damages ce- quiring expenditure of more than $1 million above and beyond what normally wouW be-spent. Other Communities Other towns and communities proclaimed as emergency areas are: Lincoln, Bellwood, Linwood, ton, Wahoo, Memphis, Ashland, Valparaiso, Agnew, Roca, Raymond, Ulysses, Staplehurst, Milford and Crete. Earlier yesterday, the Small Business Administration Washington, designated a three county Butler, Saline and Saunders as a disaster area. This permitted individuals, corporations, or partnerships in the area who have suffered a property is eligible to file for a disaster loan.

Churches, charitable institutions and nonprofit organizations are also eligible for the loans. Application for the disaster loans must be filed wibh the Administration's branch office. Second crest on Blue pretty well leveled The Topeka Weather Bureau rescheduled second of the Big Blue River has pretty well dissipated before arriving here in Beatrice. Last night the river level dipped to 14.28 feet and was up only a few inches this morning. According to tbe Weather Bureau, the water level is not expected to rise too much more, but remain fairly steady for a few days before dropping back to normal.

In the meantime Beatricians are trying to clean up the mess caused by the raging waters and account for the damage that might have done. But most are happy that the crux of the flood was over and that conditions were not worse in the Beatrice area. All 4-H youngsters are invited to camp AH 4-H youngsters are invited to attend District 4-H Camp in Seward July 15-17, said County Agent Elton Perry. Registrations must be turned in to the County Extension Office by July 5. The camp program will include games, recreation, special sessions, Handicraft, swtmming, movies and camping ceremonies.

Members of the Beatrice City Council and the Park Board are shown here inspecting the cracks in the bottom of swimming pool. (Sun photo) Riverside More patches for old pool Council gives nod to fix cracks caused by flood The old swimming pool will get another temporary fixing as the City Counc'I yesterday afternoon authorized the Park Board to go ahead and repair cracks so that the pool could be used again. Special Meeting A special Council meeting was asked by the Park Board to get approval for spending of probably more than $1,000 to fix the cracks in the pool caused by the recent flood waters. Yesterday at 1 p. m.

the Council and Park Board members gathered for the hottest meeting of the year. At least the thermometer in the bottom of the pool felt higher than the 90 degrees above the pool. During the meeting, the Council viewed the various cracks "where water was still seeping into the Three or four inches of water lad seeped in from 9 a. m. until shortly after noon.

It was also diacussed that after the water table went down and the pool was filled, the pressure would cause the pool to leak instead of seep. A counle of the cracks were dug out bv Councilmen Russ Arthur and Les Warren to see how solid the )ase was underneath. Expected spots were not found underneath the cracks. Reopening Adoph Gerdes. park superintendent, sa'd that the pool would have to be closed for about 10 days to complete the repair job.

He' said that perhaps the pool could be reopened by July 7. Crow' MOSES -LAKE, Wash (AP)A careless crow With nowhere to go Perched on a wire and Started a fire. That blackened, alas, Fifty acres of grass. When it touched a transformer The climate turned warmer; Jy firemen overheated The blaze was defeated; And they found when they looked The crow had been cooked. Wymore boy to be exchange student WYMORE Ricky Ryan, grandson of Mr.

and Mrs. M. W. Ryan, Wymore, will be an exchange student at the University of Mont- peliar in France this fall. Ryan will sail front New York September 13.

He has completed two years college in Chico, Calif, and plans to finish there when he returns from France. His father is Maj. Richard Ryan, Ellsworth Air Force Base, S. D. Ryan's sister Kathi will attend school at Peru.

Four drown in farm pond Brothers bodies recovered from water in Iowa RIVERSIDE, Iowa (AP)-Four boys, the oldest 13, drowned Thursday while wading in a farm pond on the Noah Mast farm near here. Mrs. Mast said she say them playing around the pond and cautioned them that one part of it was deep. Later the boys' clothing was found on the bank. Searchers recovered the bodies.

The victims were Raymond Gingerich, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gingerich; his cousin, Johnny Yoder, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Yoder; and two brothers, David Bell, 10, and Carl Bell, 8.

The brothers were wards of the Juvenile Court at Iowa City and had been taken to the Gingerich home for foster care only last Tuesday, welfare officials said. Kaiser announces workers share plan FONTANA, Calif. the month of May, automation saved $1,080,000 for the Steel Corp. Because of this, the firm announced Thursday, 4,400 workers will share $339,000. Kaiser and the United Steelworkers of America last year worked out a profit-sharing plan designed to offset the problems of automation.

Under the scheme union employes get back 32.5 per cent of any savings, in steel production costs. Make use of limited assets 'State has no Grand Canyon, sell our history' To attract tourists to Nebraska we must advertise what we have, and make what we have accessible. This was the advice that Dr. James Olsen, head of the University of Nebraska history department, had for the Homestead Historical Society, when it met last night at Homestead National Monument, one of the state's finest attractions. Sell Our Assets "We Nebraskans must be proud of our history and of our state," he said.

"We must be informed and tell people in other states the values of Nebraska." The Homestead and the Nebraska frontier are symbols of United States symbols of a free and independent society, he said. The people in the United States should be interested in seeing the beautiful sights in Nebraska, but our scenery is not as marketable as that of- some of the other states, said Dr. Olson. "We have no Grand Canyon." The tourists would be more interested in the history of the plains. Visitors might want to spend an hour or two at the Homestead, a few hours at Fort Robinson, and a couple of hours somewhere else.

They may not want to stay here for two weeks, but at least we can get them to pay a shorter visit. Dr. Olson reviewed the distribution of the public domain since the days of the Confederation. In 1862, three of the most important land legislation acts were passed. These were the Pacific Railroad Act, the Land Grant College Act, and the Homestead Act.

These demonstrated the interests at the time: transportation, education, and cheap land. Thirty four million acres in Nebraska were deeded to the farmers under one of the Homestead Acts. Many of the settlers were Union veterans who bought the land with military script. Other settlers in this region were emigrants from the Scandinavian countries, and from western Europe. Actually a Wager The Homestead Act was actually a wager between the farmer and the government.

The government bet 160 acres, against the farmers' $14, that the farmre could not live in Nebraska for five years. Only 52 per cent of the farmers won the bet. Before Dr. Olson spoke, members of the Homestead Historical Society discussed possible means of arousing more interest among Beatrice in Homestead National Monument. Among the suggestions: Pioneer Days, when people would dress in old-fashined garb, patterned after the annual festival at Brownville; and a square dance festival at the Homestead.

No church There will be no church services Sunday at Christ Lutheran Church at Pickrell because of blacktopping being applied in the road by the church. State Installment Sales Act is declared unconstitutional 60 million acre wheat planting seen Ag Department releases first official forecast By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON (AP)-In a first official forecast, the Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service said Friday farmers probably will seed 60 million acres of wheat for the unrestricted 1964 crop. Such an acreage would compare with this year's federal planting allotment of 55 million acres under a control program and 49.5 million set under a tighter control program farmers rejected at a recent national grower referendum. This year, however, farmers voluntarily retired 7,758,000 acres of their allotments in return for government payments.

Surplus Increase A 60 million acreage next year easily could bring an increase in surplus stocks after three consecutive years of decline. Such an acreage would be the largest since 1956, when plantings totaled 60.6 million acres. But it would be far short of the record high of 83.9 million in 1949. Seeding of next year's wheat will begin this fall. Defeat of the tight control plan by farmers put into effect a program of voluntary acreage allotments without marketing quotas and penalties.

Price support will be available only to farmers who comply with allotments. Below Requirement A review of the wheat situation by the Research Service said this year's indicated crop of 1,084,000,000 bushels is expected to be about 200 million bushels below domestic and export requirements. The deficit would be supplied from surplus stock. The bulk of which are owned by the government under price support operations. Eagles Club backs new swimming pool Dr.

Dean Doyle, Junior Chamber of Commerce member, a n- nounced yesterday that he received a letter from the Eagles Club pledging its support of the new proposed swimming pool. The letter said: "Please give our thanks to the members of your group who visited us and explained to us this worthwhile project that means so much to the future of our city." The Jaycees on the speaking committee, informing groups about the proposed swimming pool to be voted on July 16, are: Walt Braun, John Dando, Bruce McBride and Dr. Dean Doyle. They plan to speak to other organizations including the Lions Club, the Rotary Club, the Senior Citizens, the Kiwanis Club and the Toastmasters Club. Those who have already pledged their support to the Jayceea promotion project are the City Council, the Senior Chamber of Commerce, the Park Board, the Ser- toma Club, the Eagles Club Auxiliary and the Beatrice Newcomers Club.

Mrs. Schwartzkopf one up at end of 18 Dorothy (Mrs. Sam) Schwartz- copf was one up on Jean (Mrs. Paul) Hyland at the end of the first 18 holes of the final round of the Nebraska Women's Invita- State Golf Tournament, be- ng played at the Beatrice Country Club. The final 18 of the 36-hole final round is played this afternoon, between the two Lincolnites.

In the first 18 this morning it was, Mrs. Schwartzkopf's driving vs. Mrs. Hyland's sharp iron shots. On the green they were about even.

Mrs. Schwartzkopf, on the first 18, shot and Mrs. Hy- and So, what else is new? Idlewild (N.Y.) Airport users are heedless of the abbreviated costume of Susan Pratt, "Miss England." She will get her due share of attention later, as a Miss Universe contestant. (NEA Telephoto) No declaration of war. but battle for men's minds rages (Editor's Note: One of the most penetrating examinations of the confrontation of democracy and communism in the world today was that which Lt.

Col. Oscar L. Clarke delivered as his Memorial Day address here about a month ago (In these days before our celebration of American independence, The Sun is publishing, in five parts the text of Col. Clarke's address, except for a few opening remarks. (A former Gage County judge, Col.

Clarke Is now an officer of the National Bank of Commerce in Lincoln, and commanding officer of the National Guard battalion of which the Beatrice Guard unit is a part. (In granting permission to publish his address, Col. Clarke said, I cannot claim complete authorship. Much of the material came as a result of my attention to a National Defense By Lt. Col.

Oscar L. Clarke Jr. Nebraska National Guard Today, we are again faced with a great crisis, perhaps the greatest challenge that our people have ever had to face. For this time we deal not with internal struggle within our nation nor as a partner in a great alliance of freeman, but as the acknowledged leader of the free world, upon whom the lopes and aspirations of millions and millions of people the world is depending to guide them to a ife of freedom and human dignity. What is this great crisis? It is he threat of communist totalitar- anism to the life of freedom and democracy which we enjoy today and toward which millions of people the world over are struggling oday.

International communism and democracy are locked in a real struggle for the minds of men and the government of na- ions. Though there has been no declaration of war, no announcement of the opening of hostilities, we are at war the cold war. This war will not be won in a day or a year, not be limited to one or a few great battles. It will be a ong, tough war and one that I choose to refer to as the protracted conflict and about which I wish to confine the balance of my emarks. Let us define the term "The Protracted Dr.

Robert itrauz Hupe, co-author of the book that name defines it as "A strategy for annihilating the op- jonent over a period of time by maneuvers, psychological manipulations and diverse forms of violence." Shift the battleground, confuse the opponent, keep him off balance, wear down his resistance; finally deliver the knockout punch. Let us consider' another development of communist goals. We must know their goals Id understand their strategy. It started over a hundred years ago with the writing by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels of "The Communist Manifesto," the origins of communism. Karl Max said, "I Do not intend to reform the world: I intend to change it." Their basic principle that man on earth is subject to external material factocs: He who can manipulate those factors successfully can create a new society and rule it.

Marx said the root of all evil is private property ownership the fundamental economic base of our free society. So long as men have private property, they will be selfish, want more. Result conflicts between people, between societies, between nations. So to have an orderly peaceful world, the entire institution of private property must go. Therefore, expropriation of propety is a fundamental operational principle of communism.

Since the owner will resist, he must be eliminated. We must realize this great goal of communism. They say peace is their goal but since the opposition must be stamped out first, it is a peace arising out of great conflict. Conflict is the keystone of communism. We must realize this because if we fail to understand that communism is a highly militarized movement from its very beginning, and it relies on power and the extermination of enemies power, we will be led Into many traps in trying to com- irehend and deal with it.

From tfarx and Engels to Khrushchev, the leaders of communism have skilled in militarism, Communism is military in its origins, military its operations, military in its goals. (Sunday's continuation takes up communism's strategic princi- limited operations, by feints and surer's office. Personal faxes due County Treasurer William Kleman reminds the public that the second half of the 1962 personal axes will become delinquent July Tax payers are to pay this half of their taxes at the County Trea- Nebraska Court rules in Omaha case 'One paragraph change to make it constitutional' LINCOLN (AP)-The State Supreme Court, in a far-reaching decision, hold Friday that the Nebraska Installment Sales Act passed by (he 1950 Legislature is unconstitutional. The classification of property In the 1959 act for the purpose of fixing varying maximum rates of interest on installment sales contracts "is unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious," the high court held. "The act does not operate uniformly on the persons and property in the clnss sought to be regulated," it added.

The judgment reversed that of the Douglas County District Court in a widely watched test brought by William F. Elder and others against Thomas C. Doerr and involving the time sale of an automobile. 'In Jeopardy' In a legislative floor speech calling attention to the Supreme Court action, Sen. Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff said the decision "puts in jeopardy all the loans made under that (installment sales) act." No state can operate without installment selling and the legislature at its current session may either have to receive a replacement bill or be called into special session to do so, Carpenter said.

Sen. Fred Gottschalk of Columbus, however, said that "by changing one paragraph in this bill, it will become constitutional and we are working on it right now." Hundreds of thousands of dollars of business are presumed to have been done under the invalid act since it became law. In the case reviewed by the Supreme Court, Elder bought an automobile from an Omaha dealer under a retail installment contract which subsequently was assigned to Doerr. Parties to the suit agreed by stipulation that the time sale differential was $257.96 and that this amount was less than the maximum allowed under the 1959 Installment Sales Act. They also agreed that the $257.96 exceeded nine per cent per annum on the unpaid balance, which is the maximum interest non-licensed lenders are permitted to charge under the Nebraska Installment Loan Law.

'Contract Net effect of the Supreme Court opinion in Elder's case was to declare the contract void. Elder contended not only that the Nebraska installment sales act is unconstitutional, but that his installment contract violated the Nebraska Installment Loan Act. Doerr maintained that the Nebraska Installment Sales Act is constitutional, but even if it is not, the transaction was a valid time sale and not in violation of the loan act. The court recalled the general rule that "a sale of property for a price fixed by the seller and accepted by the purchaser, if made in good faith, does not involve any question of usury." The court recalled also its repeated holdings that an ment time sale which is in fact a loan is void if it violates the Nebraska Installment Loan Act. In the case at issue, the court said, "the only logical conclusion that can be reached is that the differential was for the for- of money and is, in fact, an interest charge.

Since it is stipulated that the amount of the differential is in excess of an amount equal to nine per cent per annum simple interest it would ippear to be in violation of the Nebraska Installment Loan Act." Judge Leslie Boslaugh wrote a lissenting opinion in which he leld that the constitutionality of he installment sales act should not have been an issue in the case. Erin flips for 'Cousin Jack' President Kennedy gets a big from Mrs. Mary Byao, vecoitd coiuin once removed, during viiit to toe Kvaaedy at photo) btlaad. (NEA By PATRICK J. MASSEY DUBLIN (AP)-To great applause and cheers, President Kennedy told members of the Irish Parliament today they represent a free that is why lie feels at home in Ireland.

The Dail, formed out of centuries of struggle, opened its doors Us the U.S. President who is the great-grandson of an Irish emigrant. Kennedy came here after a second barnstorming tour around the Irish countryside during which he received the freedom of Cork and another mighty welcome from A roar of applause and cheering burst out as the President strode into the Dail chamber to address a joint session. Dail Speaker Patrick Hogan declared: "It is an occasion unique as an event In Irish is an international gesture of kindness and goodwill." Kennedy told the that the free Ireland of today has a future "as promising as your past is proud" in the role of "a maker and shaper of world peace." He said he feels "at home" in longer a country of persecution, or "It is a free country and that, too, is why I feel at home." Kennedy called on other nations to imitate the way the Irish won their independence. "New nations can build with the same kind of fruitful relationship that Ireland has established with Great Britain," the President said, "a relationship founded on equality and mutual interests." He told his aud'ence that "the heroic deeds," the most enduring literature have emerged from the small nations of the world.

"Ireland has already set a standard for other small nations to follow," be declared, i At the outset of his speech Kennedy presented to the Irish natioa a flag of the Irbh brigade which fought in the U.S. Civil War. His remarks were punctuated by applause from a chamber packed with distinguished guests includ- irtg Prime Minister Sean Lemass and U.S. Ambassador Matthew McCloskey. Kennedy flew back to Dublin from Cork, where he was made a freeman of the city.

There he told a cheering crowd that when he retires he will take great satisfaction "in not only being president of my country but a freeman of tlw Heat wave expected to continue here iiociated A building heat wave is expected to continue into next week, weathermen indicated Friday. Temperatures will average as much as 10 degrees above normal through Wednesday, they said. And normal maximums in Nebraska this time of year are 85 to 90. The mercury pushed up to 105 Thursday at Imperial and to 101 at North Platte. The overnight low wa" 57 at Alliance.

BEATRICE CASH GRAIN Wheat, No. 1 Make offer Corn J1.16 Mito $1.73.